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Auction 13  7 October 2016
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Lot 248

Estimate: 17 500 CHF
Price realized: 16 000 CHF
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GREEK COINS
EGYPT

Period of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII, c. 180-116 BC. Oktodrachm (Gold, 28mm, 27.71 g 12), Alexandria, c. 150s/140s. Head of Arsinoë II to right, wearing diadem, stephane and ram's horn, and with a lotos-tipped scepter behind her head; in field to left, Κ. Rev. ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ Double cornucopiae bound with fillet; border of dots. Svoronos 1242a and pl. xl, 20. An elegant and clear coin. Extremely fine.

From the Chrysos Collection, acquired in Geneva in 1980.


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